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...Treating Ourselves York insists that probiotics aren't a passing fad but part of a trend in which people try to prevent illness through food and exercise rather than waiting until they get sick and taking medicine. The company's advisers, he says, "see probiotics, particularly for immunity and digestive health, as the largest and most enduring functional food trend - significantly bigger than omega-3 and plant oils to lower cholesterol...
...targets are Asia and Latin America. York believes China has huge potential thanks to a new version of the straw, which has been downsized to fit onto the side of the small cartons for juice or ultra-heat-treated (UHT) milk produced by global packaging giant Tetra...
...These packs are designed to preserve milk or juice without refrigeration for a year - which means all bacteria in them must be killed. York's pitch is that the new Aussie straw can not only add flavor but put the "good" bacteria back. "Tetra Pak is excited because the straw allows the package to do things it can't do today," he says. "In the next three to five years, we'd like to be selling a billion-plus straws a year...
...Unistraw's Tim York says partner Danisco has the results of extensive studies showing the health benefits of its strains. He believes people will buy the bug-laden straws because they work. "You will feel a benefit," he says, "or you'll stop...
...United Nations ages ago, before it was even fashionable," said the South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka of Miriam Makeba, who died Nov. 10 at 76. The first African woman to win a Grammy, Makeba, known affectionately as "Mama Africa," traveled to New York City in 1963. She appeared before the U.N.'s special committee on apartheid to plead for intervention in South Africa. Her nation repaid Makeba by exiling her until 1990, when President Nelson Mandela personally asked her to return...